Committee Room, Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the House. Your Committee on State Affairs, whom was referred House resolution inviting the unprovided children of Buckner's orphan home to the State orphan home, Have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do not pass, for the reason that the law now in force is sufficient. CARPENTER, Chairman. Committee Room, Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the House. Your Committe on State Asylums, whom was referred House bill No. 96, a bill to be entitled "An act to provide the mode of furnishing certain supplies to the asylums, and to repeal title IX, chapter 3 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895," Have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass. MARTIN, Chairman. Committee Room, Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the House. Your Committee on Engrossed Bills have carefully examined and compared same back to the House with the recommendation that it do not pass. KIRK, Chairman. On motion of Mr. Rogers, chairman, the Committee on Constitutional Amendments were granted further time to consider House joint resolutions Nos. 1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. Senate Chamber, Austin, Texas, Jan. 22, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the House. Sir: I am directed by the Senate to inform the House that the Senate has passed Senate bill No. 8, a bill to be entitled "An act to amend article 2526 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, relating to juries in cases of forcible entry and detainer." WILL LAMBERT, SPEAKER'S TABLE. The Speaker laid before the House, on its third reading and final passage, House bill No. 11, a bill to be entitled "An act to amend article 196 (183), chapter 2, title 7, of the Penal Code of the State of Texas," relating to disturbance of any congregation engaged in religious worship. The bill was read third time, and after further consideration, Mr. Blair moved to lay it on the table, upon which motion yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. Blair, Mr. Childs, and Mr. Edwards. The House refused to table the bill by the following vote: Ayers. House bill No. 11, a bill to be entitled "An act to amend article 196 (183) chapter 2, title 7, of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, making the playing of baseball and football on Sun- Bailey. day a violation of the law," Barrett. And find the same correctly en- Bean. grossed. Yeas-58. Flint. Gilbough. Good. Green. Bell. Harris. DIES, Chairman. Committee Room, Bertram. Holland of Burnet. Austin, Texas, Jan. 21, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the House. Your Committee on Stock and Stockand Stockraising, to whom was referred. House bill No. 114, a bill to be entitled "An act to amend article 4991, chapter 5, title 102, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, and add thereto article 4991a, relating to taking up and impounding stock." Crowley. Evans of Hunt. Have had the same under considera- Feild. tion, and I am instructed to report the Fisher. McFarland. McGaughey. McKamy. McKellar. Mercer. Moore, Fort Bend. Morris. Neighbors. O'Connor. Pfeuffer. Pitts. Randolph. church or other place of public worship, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be Vaughan, Gua'lupe fined in any sum not less than $25 nor Turner. Ward. Rogers. Savage. Staples. Schlick. Seabury. Shropshire. Sluder. Wilcox. more than $200." Mr. Carpenter moved to table the amendment, and the motion was lost. After further consideration, Mr. Fields moved the previous question, which was duly seconded, and the main question was ordered. Question first recurring on the substitute, yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. Drew, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Evans of Hunt. The substitute was adopted by the following vote: Ayers. Bailey. Bean. Bell. Benson. Kirk. Blackburn. Evans of Grayson. Stokes. Blair. Boyd. Browne. Callan. Carswell. Collier. Crawford. Crowley. Cureton. Welch. Dean. Williams. Dennis. Dickinson. McFarland. McGaughey. McKamy. McKellar. Mercer. Moore, Fort Bend. Neighbors. O'Connor. Randolph. Rogan. Excused. Reiger. Paired: Mr. Beaird (present), who would have noted "yea," with Mr. Patterson (absent), who would have voted “nay.” Mr. Fields offered the following amendment: Flint. In line 16, after the word "Sunday," Gilbough. insert the words "within one-half mile | Good. of any church, school house or private Graham. residence." Mr. Evans of Hunt offered the following substitute for the amendment by Mr. Fields: Green. Turner. Vaughan, Guad'lup Wall. Ward. Wilcox. Hill of Gonzales. Wolters. Amend by striking out all after the word "Sunday," in line 14, and insert Alexander. the following: "or any person who Barbee. shall hereafter hunt game of any kind Bennett. whatsoever on Sunday within one-half Bounds. mile of any church, school house or private residence, or any person or persons who shall hereafter play baseball, foot ball or any game of like kind on Sun- Burns. day within one-half mile of any Carpenter. Brewster. Nays-45. Childs. Conoly. Curry. Dorroh. Drew. Garrison. Henderson. Kimbell. Strother. Thaxton. Paired: Mr. Shropshire (present), Hensley. Thompson. Tracy. Tucker. who would have voted "yea," with Holland of Burnet. Vaughan of Collin. Mr. Robbins (absent), who would have voted "nay." Question next recurring on the amendment as substituted, the Clerk was directed to call the roli, and it was lost by the following vote (not receiving the necessary two-thirds majority): Yeas-73. Green. Kimbell. Lillard. Love. Martin. Maxwell. Beaird. Ewing. Reiger. Wall. Wallace. Welch. Williams. Wood. Absent. Logan. Patterson. Excused. Rudd. Ayers. Bailey. Harris. Paired: Mr. Shropshire (present), who would have voted "yea," with Mr. Robbins (absent), who would have voted "nay." final Question next recurring on passage of the bill, yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. Bailey, Mr. Henderson and Mr. Tracy. The bill was passed by the following vote Alexander. Yeas-62. Graham. Henderson. Hensley. Hill of Gonzales. Holland of Burnet. Kimbell. Lillard. Love. Manson. Moore, Lamar. Fisher. Flint. Morton. Mundine. Freeman. Gilbough. Good. Graham. Peery. Porter. Reubell. Rhea. Rogan. Shelburne. Thompson. Tracy. Tucker. Skillern. Vaughan of Collin. Smith. Wall. Stamper. Wallace. Stokes. Strother. Thomas. Nays-56. Ayers. Jones. Bailey. Barrett. Bean. Bell. Bertram. · Bird. Blair. Browne. Callan. Childs. Collier. Crawford. Welch. Kirk. McFarland. Moore, Fort Bend. Neighbors. Pfeuffer. Pitts. Randolph. Rogers. Savage. Schlick. Crowley. Cureton. Dennis. Dickinson. Dies. Edwards. Seabury. printing to be done under the supervision of the Chairmen of the Committees on Printing and the Committees on Rules of the two houses. Read second time, and Mr. Lillard offered the following amendment: Amend by printing 200 copies instead of 300; and amend further by giving 50 copies of said rules to the Senate and 150 copies to the House; and amend further by omitting from the rules printed for the House the Constitution of the United States; and also that said rules printed for the House be bound in paper backs and not in cloth, as the last ones were. On motion of Mr. Williams, the amendment was tabled. Mr. Freeman offered the following amendment: Amend by striking out "300" and inserting "200." Mr. Henderson moved to adjourn until 10 o'clock a. m. to-morrow, and the motion was lost. On motion of Mr. Neighbors, the amendment was tabled. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Fields moved to reconsider the vote by which House concurrent resolution No. 6 was adopted, and to table the motion to reconsider. The motion to table prevailed. Mr. Seabury moved to adjourn until Vaughan, Gua'lupe. 10 o'clock a. m. to-morrow, and the Ward. Wilcox. motion was lost. Mr. Evans of Hunt moved to reconsider the vote by which House bill No. 11 was passed, and asked to have that motion spread upon the Journal. Mr. Carpenter called up the above motion and moved to lay it on the table, upon which Mr. Ward moved a call of the House. The call was seconded, the Clerk was directed to call the roll, and the following members were announced absent without leave: Messrs. Dean, Ewing. Patterson, Robbins, Smyth and Welch. Mr. Carpenter moved to excuse the absentees, upon which yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Good and Mr. Wolters. The House refused to excuse the absentees by the following vote: Yeas-63. House concurrent resolution No. 6: Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that there be printed and bound 300 copies of book containing the rules of the Senate, the rules of the House of Representatives, the joint rules of the two houses, the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Texas, properly indexed and annotated, also a list of the officers, standing committees, and members of each house, 100 copies of the same to be for the use of the Senate and 200 Brewster. copies for the use of the House; the Bumpass. |